Improvement in the manufacture of glass-ware



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Letters Patent No. 89,005, dated April 20, 18.69.

-IMPROVE1vr:e1\'rr IN Tian MANUFACTRB or @Less-WARE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the sama.

To all whoml'it may concern it comes from the mould, before the blow-over is detached.

Figure 3 represents the pitcher prepared to receive its metallic cover or cap.

Like letters are employed to indicate similar parts.

Previous to the date of our invention it .was found tobe impracticable 4to make ewer-mouthed vessels of glass, by blowingthem iu a mould, which would form the ewer-month,'or lip,as well as the body of the vessel.

The advantage to be derived from making such articles in a mould is, the forming of the upper edgehor rim of a definite curved shape, so that a metallic cap, or cover, of corresponding shape, will fit closely on to the naked glass edge, or rim.

Owing to this practical dilculty of making by hand a glass @wer-mouth ed vessel of sufficiently regular shape to tit a metallic cap, glass pitchers which were required to. be covered were made with a cylindrical neck, to which a separate top-piece was attached, by cement, Yor otherwise, such top-piece-consisting of the rim and ewer-mouth, or lip, with a hinged cover.

TWerhz'tvey succeeded in 'making ewer-mouthed glass pitchers 'with such exactness and uniformity that metallic caps can be attached thereto, so as to shut down fon to the naked glass rim, and make a close joint.

For such articles, Letters Patent ofthe United States having been granted to us already, wepropose in this specification .to describe the construction and operation of the moulds which we. use, and by means of which we are'enabled to blow ewer-mouthed glass vessels with a definitely-shaped rim.`

To enablel others skilled in the art to'construct and use our invention, we will proceed to describe it particularly.

In the drawing, fig. 1, a c are the two halves of a mould used 'for making ewer-mouthed vessels, which halves are united by hinges, b b, inthe usual way, and 'when closed, they form a cavity, or matrix, in which the ewer-mouthed vessel is formed, by blowing the glass within it.

There is nothing peculiar in the lower parts of the mould, (marked a a,) which are made in the ordinary way, excepting as to the shape of the upper portion.

"of the'cavity, itl being a new thing, as before stated,

in the art of glass-making, 'to form a ewer-mouthed glass vessel by blo'win' in a mould, owing to the diiiculty of giving a uniorm thickness tothe glass all around the rim, or a slight excess of'thickness in the ewer-rnouth, or lip.

This we accomplish by means of the peculiar construction of the.cavity of the upper part, c c, of the mould', which is abovelthe rim of the pitcher in which the blow-over d, (see fig. 2,) is formed, and by placing the neck e, or openingin the mould through which the glass is inserted and blown to one side of the centre or axial line of the mould, and over the ewer-mouthed portion of the cavity f.

Vhen glass is blown in a mould, the further it has to travel fromtthe point at which it is inserted the thinner it becomes, as it is Adistended more than the other parts. Hence, if a ewer-mouthed vessel were blown iu a mould of ordinary construction, lthe lip or Y ewern mouth extendinf-:r'y further from the centre, would be so much thinner than the sides as to destroy the usefulness of the article.

In our improved mould, the neck or mouth e of the mould is placed to one side of the centre or axial line,

, as is seen in iig. 2, from the position of the piece of glass ef, which is formed in the neck cof the mould.

In order to secure the requisite thickness of glass alongV and all around the rim of the glass pitcher or vessel to be made, -a shoulder, or projection, i, is formed in the mould, which projects over or on 'to the rim of the pitcher or vessel made in the mould; This shoulder i is of the exact shape and curvature to be given to the top or rim of the-pitcher.

Above this shoulder i, the cavity c c of the mould rapidly widens for a short distance, (to the point in g. 1,) and thence as rapidly contracts, to the dimensions of the neck e of the mould.

The effect of this construction is that the glass in; serted in the cavity ofthe mould, when it rises to the shoulder i, is arrested in its upward progress, and becomes a little thicker at that point all around the rim 'than it otherwise would be, were it not for the shoulder i. The 'glass then passing over the slight obstruction presented bythe shoulder c', spreads out into the cavity o c, and forms the blow-over Wd, (seen in Iig. 2,) of a comparatively thin lm of glass, so that when it is desired to remove the blow-over, a slight stroke will canse it to break 'off close to the rim of the pitcher', along the line formed by the shoulder i in the mould, without danger of fracturing the pitcher.

The rim of the pitcher is thus deinitelyshaped, sd

that a metallic cover will t it, the edge ofthe glass, left rough by breaking off the blow-over, being ground,

smooth, without altering the shape or contour given by the shoulder t'.

We will now proceed to describe the device which we employ in connection with our improved mould for making indentations in the glass at the points where1 y. holes are to be perforated, for the insertion of rivets, fo

k, to which is attached (parallel to the handle g) a rod,

n, the point of-which passes through the mould, entering its cavity at the proper point for making the rivet-holes in the glass, as 'seen in iig. 1, the same atn tachment being made to each of the half moulds a, a.

When the glass is blown in the mould, the points n', of the rods n, project sufficiently far into the cavity of the mould for -the glass to -forrn a thin film over the point of the rod, leaving an indentation, m, in the glass.

When the glass pitcher is to be removed from the mould, the sleeves h are drawn back, so as to with; draw the points fn! n from the cavity of the mould, and thus the points are prevented from injuring the glass, or unduly enlarging the-indentations.

By these means we are enabled to producea nicer and better article than can be made in any of the methods previously known, not only, but are enabled to accomplish what has heretofore been found imprac- 'line of the main cavity, and over that part of the mould in which the ewer-mouth is formed.

2. A mould for forming ewer-mouthed glass vessels, furnished with a shoulder, 1', and flaring blow over recess, substantially as describedhfor the purposes set forth.

3. Blowing ewer-mouthed glass vessels i'n a mould, constructed substantially as hereinbefore described, and for the purposes set forth.

4. The movable points n', entering the cavity of the mould, and operated substantially as described, for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof, we, the said J. S. ATTERRURY and T. B.- ATTERBURY, have hereunto set our hands.

J. S. ATTERBURY. Witnesses: T. B. ATTERBURY.

A. PATTERSON, J onN C.l STnvENsoN. 

